NY-Based Company Recovers Global Communications Applications and Data During Power Outage With Real-Time Disaster Recovery System

New York, NY, Friday, August 15, 03, 12:17 AM -- Forbes.com uses Evergreen Assurance's automated DR Service to ensure availability of mission-critical e-mail and data for employees worldwide.

What: NY-based Forbes.com avoided extensive communications systems outages during the widespread loss of power caused by the failure of the Niagara grid. Employees worldwide were impacted, but regained the ability to communicate and access critical information via e-mail in a matter of minutes.

The company utilized its real-time e-mail disaster recovery service with Annapolis-based Evergreen Assurance and through the following process was able to restore global e-mail.

-- IT executives experienced a loss of e-mail and messaging applications due to power outage.

-- Executives authorized Evergreen Command Center personnel to execute the automated fail-over process.

-- Evergreen implemented fail-over process from Annapolis location.

-- The Evergreen DR system determined that Forbes.com primary systems were completely unavailable and automatically implemented disaster recovery sequence to engage a remote, dedicated secondary system.

-- The secondary system was engaged and assumed the role of the primary e-mail system.

-- All traffic flowing in and out of the Forbes.com e-mail system was directed to a dedicated secondary site and access to e-mail and data were restored.

All Forbes.com employees with Web mail now have full access to all e-mail applications and data. Communications throughout the corporate network are operational. The process, transparent to end users, is allowing employees worldwide to continue day-to-day business operations.

Companies without such a real-time e-mail disaster recovery service will not be able to take similar actions until power is restored. Additionally, those companies with traditional disaster recovery contracts will then have to implement time and labor intensive processes to fully restore the operation of that system, resulting in reduced employee productivity and potential loss of business revenues.

Why: Companies rely heavily on their mission-critical business applications to access information, monitor and execute transactions, and communicate with employees, customers and partners. While traditional disaster recovery solutions fall short of meeting today's rapidly expanding business requirements of automatic disaster recovery and guaranteed access to IT systems and data, Evergreen's disaster recovery management system (DRMS) was designed to meet those needs specifically. The Evergreen DRMS delivers an integrated disaster recovery and disaster prevention platform that gives companies total control over their DR process.

-- Real-Time Disaster Recovery: The DRMS is based on a failover command and control system that provides automated failover of critical applications with the single push of a button from a secure Web console. Continuous data replication ensures total integrity of a company's data. Evergreen provides each customer with a dedicated secondary system at data centers located more than 300 miles from the customer's facility to protect against regional disasters.

-- Disaster Prevention: The DRMS offers cross-tier, behavioral-based monitoring and analysis of more than 100 different elements in the IT stack. The system continuously checks all the applications, databases, systems and networks that support a company's mission-critical business applications and provides early warning of potential problems. Along with early warning, the Evergreen DRMS provides correlated, time-series analysis of disparate systems so that companies can determine the root cause of potential problems.

Evergreen also provides customers with the benefit of its Strategic Assurance Command Center, an on-call staff of senior systems and disaster recovery experts that continually monitor the Evergreen DRMS to ensure that it is always ready for recovery.

About Evergreen: Evergreen Assurance, Inc. provides real-time disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical business applications. Unlike traditional disaster recovery solutions where customer equipment is shared and failover can take as long as 72 hours, Evergreen's Disaster Recovery Management System (DRMS) offers 15-minute, application-specific recovery on a dedicated secondary environment. Committed to delivering continuous availability for companies, Evergreen's DRMS also includes predictive degenerative analysis that prevents IT system failures before they occur. For more information or to view an Evergreen DRMS demo, please visit http://www.evergreen.net .

SOURCE Evergreen Assurance, Inc.

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